kdrama: Fantasy Couple

The last few days, I have been bingeing of Fantasy Couple, the kdrama based on the 80s movie, Overboard.  It is almost too good for words.

The plot (with some liberties taken, as they have to turn a movie less than 2 hours long into a 16 hour show) is about Anna, an American raised Korean woman(who, incidentally, actually DOES have English as good as the characters praise it as being) who's filthy rich, insane arrogant, and has no caring whatsoever about the feelings of others.  She crosses paths several time with Chul Soo, a money pinching handyman.  Each encounter ends badly, of course, and involves things like hitting him in the head with a shovel (she thought he was a serial killer) driving off with his head stuck in her car window (he stuck it in to yell at her over the shovel head bashing...) mutual petnapping, and finally, kicking him and his tools off her boat and into the ocean.  He gets his chance at payback, though, when he finds her in the hospital with amnesia.  He claims that she's his lover and takes her home to work off the money she owes him by taking care of his house and three nephews.

The leads, Han Ye Seul and Oh Ji Ho, have some of the best chemistry-comedic and otherwise-that I've seen and make two characters that should be difficult and unlikable fun and endearing from start to finish, and the supporting cast is great and quirky.  While the other Song Sisters drama I've seen, My Girl is better in terms of drama and romance, Fantasy Couple is the better comedy of the two, and I think I like Anna and Chul Soo as a couple more than I do Yu Rin and Gong Chan(and I liked YR and GC a lot)

Lots of pics and text under the cut.

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Also, has anyone been following or heard feedback on Get Karl! Oh Soo Jung?

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kdrama: Fantasy Couple

The last few days, I have been bingeing of Fantasy Couple, the kdrama based on the 80s movie, Overboard.  It is almost too good for words.

The plot (with some liberties taken, as they have to turn a movie less than 2 hours long into a 16 hour show) is about Anna, an American raised Korean woman(who, incidentally, actually DOES have English as good as the characters praise it as being) who's filthy rich, insane arrogant, and has no caring whatsoever about the feelings of others.  She crosses paths several time with Chul Soo, a money pinching handyman.  Each encounter ends badly, of course, and involves things like hitting him in the head with a shovel (she thought he was a serial killer) driving off with his head stuck in her car window (he stuck it in to yell at her over the shovel head bashing...) mutual petnapping, and finally, kicking him and his tools off her boat and into the ocean.  He gets his chance at payback, though, when he finds her in the hospital with amnesia.  He claims that she's his lover and takes her home to work off the money she owes him by taking care of his house and three nephews.

The leads, Han Ye Seul and Oh Ji Ho, have some of the best chemistry-comedic and otherwise-that I've seen and make two characters that should be difficult and unlikable fun and endearing from start to finish, and the supporting cast is great and quirky.  While the other Song Sisters drama I've seen, My Girl is better in terms of drama and romance, Fantasy Couple is the better comedy of the two, and I think I like Anna and Chul Soo as a couple more than I do Yu Rin and Gong Chan(and I liked YR and GC a lot)

Lots of pics and text under the cut.

( pics and commentary )

Also, has anyone been following or heard feedback on Get Karl! Oh Soo Jung?

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jmovie: Returner

I just watched the jmovie Returner.  Depending on your reasons for watching, it is either about Takeshi Kaneshiro running around shooting and blowing things up while wearing leather or it's about a girl from the future who travels back in time to save the world from an alien invasion who "convinces" a mercenary with a mad-on for the guy who causes it all to help her.

The plot is essentially this: 82 years in the future(as of 2002) humanity has been all but wiped out by an alien invasion.  The remaining humans develop a time machine to travel back in time to stop the aliens when they first arrive (no, this does NOT sound familiar...NOT AT ALL) except things go wrong and all but a young girl named Milly are wiped out, so Milly goes back on her her.  Almost immediately after her arrival, she meets a mercenary named Miyamoto, by way of accidentally shooting her in a gunfight.  For whatever reason, he thinks his apartment is a better place to take her than the hospital.  Being from the future, Milly has a bullet-proof piece of metal in her jacket so she's fine, and which point he tries to kick her out, only to have her tell him she attached a teeny bomb to his neck so he has to help her.  He is displeased but rather likes having his head attached.  It is also made easier when he learns that the guy responsible for pissing off the aliens and all but wiping out humanity as a result is his enemy, Mizumochi, who likes to abduct street kids and sell their organs.

So, yeah, kind of Japan's version of Terminator with a side of E.T.  With a Star Wars-esque fight thrown in and some wirefu.  Except no romance, what with the leads being about 28 and 14-ish(roughly on both accounts) at the time.

Things blew up.  Things were shot.  He kicked butt.  She kicked butt.  I was entertained.  Plus there was this time distortion wrist watch thingie than was fun, even though I feel it was underutilized.

I bring pics, largely of Takeshi Kaneshiro pointing his gun at things, often standing protectively in front of Suzuki Anne.

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jmovie: Returner

I just watched the jmovie Returner.  Depending on your reasons for watching, it is either about Takeshi Kaneshiro running around shooting and blowing things up while wearing leather or it's about a girl from the future who travels back in time to save the world from an alien invasion who "convinces" a mercenary with a mad-on for the guy who causes it all to help her.

The plot is essentially this: 82 years in the future(as of 2002) humanity has been all but wiped out by an alien invasion.  The remaining humans develop a time machine to travel back in time to stop the aliens when they first arrive (no, this does NOT sound familiar...NOT AT ALL) except things go wrong and all but a young girl named Milly are wiped out, so Milly goes back on her her.  Almost immediately after her arrival, she meets a mercenary named Miyamoto, by way of accidentally shooting her in a gunfight.  For whatever reason, he thinks his apartment is a better place to take her than the hospital.  Being from the future, Milly has a bullet-proof piece of metal in her jacket so she's fine, and which point he tries to kick her out, only to have her tell him she attached a teeny bomb to his neck so he has to help her.  He is displeased but rather likes having his head attached.  It is also made easier when he learns that the guy responsible for pissing off the aliens and all but wiping out humanity as a result is his enemy, Mizumochi, who likes to abduct street kids and sell their organs.

So, yeah, kind of Japan's version of Terminator with a side of E.T.  With a Star Wars-esque fight thrown in and some wirefu.  Except no romance, what with the leads being about 28 and 14-ish(roughly on both accounts) at the time.

Things blew up.  Things were shot.  He kicked butt.  She kicked butt.  I was entertained.  Plus there was this time distortion wrist watch thingie than was fun, even though I feel it was underutilized.

I bring pics, largely of Takeshi Kaneshiro pointing his gun at things, often standing protectively in front of Suzuki Anne.

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